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Stephen_Winter
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Jan 24, 2008

Setting UserAgent for Monitoring?

Hi All,     I'm not real familiar with the internal working of http, but I'm trying to setup a monitor on some web server to check for content and it's failing because the server checks Browser...
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Stephen_Winter
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Jan 24, 2008
Here what I get from the command line.... I'll check with the server owner and see what he sees in the logs.

 

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

telnet 10.10.10.10 80

 

Trying 10.10.10.10...

 

Connected to 10.10.10.10.

 

Escape character is '^]'.

 

GET /default.asp HTTP/1.1\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11\r\nHost: myserver.mydomain.com\r\nConnection: close\r\n

 

 

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request

 

Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0

 

Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:21:12 GMT

 

Connection: close

 

Content-Type: text/html

 

Content-Length: 124

 

 

Host Header Required

 

HTTP/1.1 requests require a Host: headerConnection closed by foreign host.